Looking at how MSU football recruits fared

Ohio recruits concluded the regular season while the playoffs were in full swing for Michigan and Wisconsin recruits over the weekend.

Here is a look at how Michigan State’s verbal commits fared in games this weekend.Damion Terry –The Erie (Pa.) Cathedral Prep quarterback continues to dazzle as he threw for five touchdowns to set the District 10 single-season record in a 70-0 win over Erie East. He completed 12 of 19 passes for 208 yards before exiting the game as he helped Cathedral Prep move to 9-0. He has thrown 36 touchdown passes this season. Terry is at 6.010 career passing yards – 36 away from setting the District 10 record and already owns the career record with 73 TD passes.

Delton Williams – The Cathedral Prep athlete had a 22-yard interception return for a touchdown and helped the Ramblers limit Erie East to -3 yards of total offense.

Drake Harris – The Grand Rapids Christian receiver had five catches for 103 yards, including a 45-yard TD, in a 45-6 playoff win over Fruitport

Gerald Holmes – The Flint Carman-Ainsworth running back had 19 carries for 181 yards and a touchdown in a 30-26 playoff loss to Grand Blanc. Carman-Ainsworth finishes the season at 8-2.

Jon Reschke – The Birmingham Brother Rice linebacker had 10 tackles in a 47-26 win over Port Huron in a playoff opener

Shane Jones – The Cincinnati Moeller linebacker had seven tackles in a 45-42 win over Louisville Trinity. He has 93 tackles, 2.5 sacks, 3 fumble recoveries, a forced fumble and an interception in 10 games for Moeller, which is 7-3.

Dylan Chmura – The Waukesha (Wis.) West tight end had four catches for 68 yards and two touchdowns in a 54-49 loss to Watertown in the second round of the playoffs. He finished the season with 19 catches for 346 yards and five TDs.

I hope all in Sandy’s path are fairing well. However, I’d like to tie MSU AD communications front man, Lewandowski, to tree in CT after submitting the video of Coach D dancing in the locker room and making him the focus of the teams celebration for the media and public consumption.

What’s said and done in the locker room, should stay in the locker room, IMO. Yet this comes out the week that NEB plays MSU. The same week um takes the high ground when asked if the Wolvies will cheer for MSU against the Huskers this weekend.

Last year media folks were all over Coach D like white on rice trying to goad him into saying he wants um’s support by beating um when they played UNL in the big hole in the ground. This year, Freep writers have already played um’s PR role by nipping that Q&A in the bud. Coach D knew that a team’s destiny is in their own hands and the media wouldn’t let it rest.

Time Lewandowski gets his head clear and looks at the PR war going on and who’s winning it and how. I don’t think many locker room videos showing coaches jumping around with their players are leaked, and there may be a good reason for it.

You know Mayo we met Lewandowski in person on our tour of the Breslin, Boston thanked him for getting an autographed Cousins photo for a young QB in her area. I really dont think Lewandowski meant any harm, he was just trying to show the joy of the situation and that maybe Coach D is not always so serious in privated. Just my two cents since I met the man, he was real down to earth.

Not sure I see the harm in releasing the video. I don’t think Coach D meant any disrespect to Wisconsin or anything like that. He was just happy and wanted to celebrate with his team. It’s not like he was doing this on the field in front of Wisconsin. He was doing it in the locker room with his players. If other teams want to try and use that as motivation to beat us, let them. I am sure there is a lot better material out there to use. As a Spartan fan, I think the video is awesome and am glad I got the opportunity to see it.

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This game should be one of the most entertaining. Look for Arkansas to pull it out thanks to strong run defense in the second half.
Prediction
Arkansas 38, Tulsa 34
Come Sat night, them thar hogs be 4-5 and very much alive . Now I will make you a friendly wager right now son. If the Hogs go 6-6 and make a bowl than you admit that MSU hired the wrong man in 2006. If the Hogs pick up loss #7. than you will never hear from me again. 7 losses aint gonna happen though son , that team is too well coached ,so don’t get your hopes up.
And one last thing, I asked our dean in Geography, where the country of Maslow was and he confirmed there is no such country as Maslow. Who do you think I am son the village idiot?

Actually: They’re a D-1 team that’s 7-1 and would play about as well as, say, Iowa or Indiana [2012] would in an AQ conference. They lead the nation in sacks (4.4 per game), but this week really hinges on Tulsa’s somewhat-injured QB; if he has a great game, Tulsa win decisively.

I give the Hogs a 52% chance of victory; they’ll win by about two points.

Because that’s all he has got to crow about, if they are 4-5 and still alive Saturday night than the Hogs will be 4-6 and in deep sh.. after South Carolina gets done with them in Columbia on Nov 10th. I went to a game one Labor Day in Tulsa when I lived in Dallas twenty years ago. Baylor beat em 34-7 or something close to that. They reminded me of a MAC team.

About this blog

Chris Solari@chrissolariChris Solari has been with LSJ Media since 2006 and has covered Spartan athletics since 1994 while attending MSU. He also was an award-winning writer while covering South Dakota State athletics from 2002-06.

Brian Calloway@brian_callowayBrian is a native of Coloma, Mich., and a 2005 graduate of Eastern Michigan. He has worked at the Lansing State Journal since October 2010.